Protectionism in photography is really just insecurity dressed up as principle. It shows up when photographers guard their techniques, avoid sharing ideas, or shut out anything that challenges their current way of working. The problem is that protectionism doesn’t actually protect anything. It shrinks your creative world. It keeps you repeating the same moves, the same habits, the same safe images. And over time, that fear of outside influence becomes the very thing that stops you from getting better. Photography […]
